Senior Java Software Engineer

Gloucester

To £70K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the highly secure nature of this work, candidates must be British Nationals, hold current UK Security Clearance to at least SC Level and be eligible to undertake further clearance to DV Level.

Position summary:

Our Tier 1 client has a strong Agile software engineering community that is growing in order to create innovative solutions to solve unique and complex business challenges. They are looking for a variety of developers with varied skill sets and experience who are keen to work on leading edge solutions.

If your programming skills are matched by an enthusiasm for problem-solving, and your communication skills are as creative as your coding, there is a digital revolution underway in the UK that could use your help.

Job role responsibilities:

You will work with high profile public and commercial clients, delivering improvements to complex systems that make the everyday simpler. Developers are involved with constructing some of the most unique and exciting software solutions within the industry, and you can expect be included within all stages of the project & system life cycles. Responsibilities include:

• Developing software and applications in either Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, Scala or Python
• Advising clients on use of Cloud technology
• Advising clients on Best Practise
• Using Middleware / Storefront products
• Migrating from legacy system to meet strategic needs

Required qualifications for this role:

• Is familiar with Agile approach and SE practices including Continuous Integration and DevOps
• Looks to build quality into the solution at every step with a focus for continually improving
• A positive attitude: There are unique challenges to this work and the requirements, technologies and problems being solved can change at short notice
• A pragmatic approach: We are looking for people who can adapt as situations evolve, who enjoy new experiences and always want to learn new things
• An approachable personality: An open, collaborative and professional demeanour is essential as many roles involve working directly with clients and require people that can present themselves and the Company well

Desirable Requirements:

• Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows
• Technologies: JBoss, ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ, AJAX, NiFi, Hadoop, Apache Kafka, ELK Stack. Databases: Mongo, Oracle, MySQL
• Tooling: Eclipse, Jenkins, Atlassian suite, Zephyr, JMeter, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer

Gloucester

To £70K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the highly secure nature of this work, candidates must be British Nationals, hold current UK Security Clearance to at least SC Level and be eligible to undertake further clearance to DV Level.

Position summary:

Our Tier 1 client has a strong Agile software engineering community that is growing in order to create innovative solutions to solve unique and complex business challenges. They are looking for a variety of developers with varied skill sets and experience who are keen to work on leading edge solutions.

If your programming skills are matched by an enthusiasm for problem-solving, and your communication skills are as creative as your coding, there is a digital revolution underway in the UK that could use your help.

Job role responsibilities:

You will work with high profile public and commercial clients, delivering improvements to complex systems that make the everyday simpler. Developers are involved with constructing some of the most unique and exciting software solutions within the industry, and you can expect be included within all stages of the project & system life cycles. Responsibilities include:

• Developing software and applications in either Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, Scala or Python
• Advising clients on use of Cloud technology
• Advising clients on Best Practise
• Using Middleware / Storefront products
• Migrating from legacy system to meet strategic needs

Required qualifications for this role:

• Is familiar with Agile approach and SE practices including Continuous Integration and DevOps
• Looks to build quality into the solution at every step with a focus for continually improving
• A positive attitude: There are unique challenges to this work and the requirements, technologies and problems being solved can change at short notice
• A pragmatic approach: We are looking for people who can adapt as situations evolve, who enjoy new experiences and always want to learn new things
• An approachable personality: An open, collaborative and professional demeanour is essential as many roles involve working directly with clients and require people that can present themselves and the Company well

Desirable Requirements:

• Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows
• Technologies: JBoss, ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ, AJAX, NiFi, Hadoop, Apache Kafka, ELK Stack. Databases: Mongo, Oracle, MySQL
• Tooling: Eclipse, Jenkins, Atlassian suite, Zephyr, JMeter, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer

JOB PURPOSE:

Good customer support is a key differentiator of high-performance organisations. The Technology support team is growing and needs an individual with software engineering / diagnostic experience, as well as customer handling experience.

This is a truly hybrid role, where we are looking for coders at heart who enjoy working closely with customers to help them resolve and troubleshoot any issues with our product.

Ultimately, the successful applicant will be responsible for the smooth running of the Support team, will be a proven leader who can prioritize, communicate and deliver well.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a team of junior software developers, leading and developing them to deliver high quality technical support and beyond.
• Maintain oversight across support tickets & their progression/ resolution.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customers. Be their champion!
• Assert a diplomatic presence in high profile tickets
• Employ diagnostic skills to assist with progress and resolution of support tickets.
• Manage the out-of-hours support service and rota.
• Development and delivery of in-house analytics and reporting tools.
• Identify a need for and commission new knowledge base articles.

• Gather intelligence from customer interactions and feed it back into the product features & documentation.

• Develop & deliver new customer communication media: e.g. Stack Overflow & web site chat.

• Assist the scheduling of releases, driving the production of and delivery of pre-releases.
• Convening and chairing the twice weekly support review.

Please Note:

The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative, not exhaustive and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post. As well as responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Educated to Degree level

• A good degree in computer science or equivalent commercial experience is essential.

Required Skills

• The successful candidate will be an effective communicator who is confident interacting directly with customers and suppliers over the phone, via email and face to face.

• Expert at de-escalating, troubleshooting and resolving technical customer issues, to become part of their success story.
• Development experience with one or more of Java, JavaScript,
• A positive can-do attitude and amiable demeanour.

• Experience using and/or supporting high performance distributed software.

• Prior experience working in a support team for a software provider or similar.

• A demonstrable understanding of modern IP networks and common production deployment features, e.g. load-balancers, firewalls & proxies.
• Linux & Windows.

Nice to Haves

In addition to the above it would be advantageous for candidates to have some knowledge of a combination of the following:

• Familiarity with mobile client technologies including iOS, Android, and HTML5 is desirable.
• Java Mission Control & JFR analysis.
• Network programming, including TCP/IP, WebSockets
• A familiarity with OpenSSL

• Scripting languages such as Python for analytical work.

GCS Computer Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

JOB PURPOSE:

Good customer support is a key differentiator of high-performance organisations. The Technology support team is growing and needs an individual with software engineering / diagnostic experience, as well as customer handling experience.

This is a truly hybrid role, where we are looking for coders at heart who enjoy working closely with customers to help them resolve and troubleshoot any issues with our product.

Ultimately, the successful applicant will be responsible for the smooth running of the Support team, will be a proven leader who can prioritize, communicate and deliver well.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a team of junior software developers, leading and developing them to deliver high quality technical support and beyond.
• Maintain oversight across support tickets & their progression/ resolution.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customers. Be their champion!
• Assert a diplomatic presence in high profile tickets
• Employ diagnostic skills to assist with progress and resolution of support tickets.
• Manage the out-of-hours support service and rota.
• Development and delivery of in-house analytics and reporting tools.
• Identify a need for and commission new knowledge base articles.

• Gather intelligence from customer interactions and feed it back into the product features & documentation.

• Develop & deliver new customer communication media: e.g. Stack Overflow & web site chat.

• Assist the scheduling of releases, driving the production of and delivery of pre-releases.
• Convening and chairing the twice weekly support review.

Please Note:

The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative, not exhaustive and may vary over time. Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post. As well as responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Educated to Degree level

• A good degree in computer science or equivalent commercial experience is essential.

Required Skills

• The successful candidate will be an effective communicator who is confident interacting directly with customers and suppliers over the phone, via email and face to face.

• Expert at de-escalating, troubleshooting and resolving technical customer issues, to become part of their success story.
• Development experience with one or more of Java, JavaScript,
• A positive can-do attitude and amiable demeanour.

• Experience using and/or supporting high performance distributed software.

• Prior experience working in a support team for a software provider or similar.

• A demonstrable understanding of modern IP networks and common production deployment features, e.g. load-balancers, firewalls & proxies.
• Linux & Windows.

Nice to Haves

In addition to the above it would be advantageous for candidates to have some knowledge of a combination of the following:

• Familiarity with mobile client technologies including iOS, Android, and HTML5 is desirable.
• Java Mission Control & JFR analysis.
• Network programming, including TCP/IP, WebSockets
• A familiarity with OpenSSL

• Scripting languages such as Python for analytical work.

GCS Computer Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the rest of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

Our Application Delivery team is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to assist in rolling out and supporting our journey to Continuous Integration and Automation. We are building a new team of engineers that will be responsible for the design, build and maintenance of the business applications hosting platform, with a move to a hybrid on-prem / Azure cloud model.

This is a hands-on role where you will work collaboratively with the development and infrastructure teams to help build, automate and manage the application hosting platform along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot issues in the dev and test environments.

Responsibilities

• Building & Supporting hosting platform
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management

Skills / Knowledge and Experience

• Work within the team of DevOps Engineers focused primarily on delivering technical solutions for improving the overall quality of application build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability and security across our lab environments
• Operate a scalable, highly-available infrastructure suite through the use of configuration management tools and repositories, ensure these environments continue to meet the needs of the development and test teams
• Support the set up all team environments, source structures etc. during project start up
• Ensure that the teams design for deployment, passionately working towards automation and elimination of repetitive tasks, bringing your experience in modern tools to help support development teams deliver more effectively
• Work with Architect and Tech Lead on the adoption of new technologies in to the estate, ensuring that these are shared with other areas and that they align with standards etc.
• To support the team in identifying issues with code / deliverables
• Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• Help the Run teams embrace the new ways of working, using toolsets and monitoring / dashboard facilities, so they know where their estate is at all times Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• An ever-developing knowledge of and interest in technology, particularly DevOps and infrastructure advances

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with Azure, with a focus on infrastructure provisioning and management
• Good understanding of provisioning and configuration systems e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Strong experience of automated deployment tools e.g. Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and approach e.g. TeamCity, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Source Control systems e.g. BitBucket, Git
• Experience with VMWare
• Strong Microsoft Skillset e.g. Server 2008-2016, SQL Server, Active Directory
• Good scripting skills e.g. PowerShell, Python
• Good understanding of databases
• Agile/Scrum working experience

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

The Company

The UK’s leading cash processing company - Vaultex UK LTD are a joint venture between Barclays Bank and HSBC. When it comes to cash processing we are thought-leaders; developing ideas that the rest of the industry follows and adapting our service to meet the needs of our customers. Simply put, our role is to ensure that cash is widely available for use and that people continue to have confidence in cash as a payment method.

Typically, Vaultex handle around £160 billion worth of bank notes and coins a year - which, if laid end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back. An accredited Living Wage Foundation employer with IIP (Investors in People) Champion Status, our external recognition as leaders in people management ensures successful applicants will enjoy career development opportunities, structured training and an excellent benefits package and a generous company pension.

Our Application Delivery team is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to assist in rolling out and supporting our journey to Continuous Integration and Automation. We are building a new team of engineers that will be responsible for the design, build and maintenance of the business applications hosting platform, with a move to a hybrid on-prem / Azure cloud model.

This is a hands-on role where you will work collaboratively with the development and infrastructure teams to help build, automate and manage the application hosting platform along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot issues in the dev and test environments.

Responsibilities

• Building & Supporting hosting platform
• Planning, design and documentation
• Supporting solutions in production
• Personal development (new technologies, performance management

Skills / Knowledge and Experience

• Work within the team of DevOps Engineers focused primarily on delivering technical solutions for improving the overall quality of application build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability and security across our lab environments
• Operate a scalable, highly-available infrastructure suite through the use of configuration management tools and repositories, ensure these environments continue to meet the needs of the development and test teams
• Support the set up all team environments, source structures etc. during project start up
• Ensure that the teams design for deployment, passionately working towards automation and elimination of repetitive tasks, bringing your experience in modern tools to help support development teams deliver more effectively
• Work with Architect and Tech Lead on the adoption of new technologies in to the estate, ensuring that these are shared with other areas and that they align with standards etc.
• To support the team in identifying issues with code / deliverables
• Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• Help the Run teams embrace the new ways of working, using toolsets and monitoring / dashboard facilities, so they know where their estate is at all times Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
• An ever-developing knowledge of and interest in technology, particularly DevOps and infrastructure advances

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with Azure, with a focus on infrastructure provisioning and management
• Good understanding of provisioning and configuration systems e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Strong experience of automated deployment tools e.g. Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and approach e.g. TeamCity, Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of Source Control systems e.g. BitBucket, Git
• Experience with VMWare
• Strong Microsoft Skillset e.g. Server 2008-2016, SQL Server, Active Directory
• Good scripting skills e.g. PowerShell, Python
• Good understanding of databases
• Agile/Scrum working experience

Personal

• Collaborative, able to communicate effectively
• Able to communicate 'upwards’ where necessary
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
• Logical, analytical mind-set, able to solve problems without over-engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Annual salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Generous company pension

Vaultex UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from the community. Please note that due to the secure nature of our business all successful candidates will need to provide a five year traceable work history (satisfactory employment references or evidence to explain employment gaps), and complete a criminal record and credit background check.

Machine Learning Researcher | £60,000 - £80,000

Python | SciPy | Numpy | Pandas | Machine Learning | Statistics | Analyst

With autonomous driving within reach, this is an interesting role that'll help reach that little more.

A chance to jump on board as a Machine Learning Researcher has come up with an Artificial Intelligence fuelled company that is focused on the research side of autonomous driver / vehicles.

You'll be:

• Implement ML techniques
• Deliver ML perception algorithms
• Stay relevant and up to data with literature

Skills:

• PhD
• Some commercial experience (non-academic)
• Worked in the full development cycle of machine learning
• Python (tensorflow and pytorch)

Desirable:

• 3D or robotics exposure
• C++

This vacancy will be closing application on 20th March 2020. If you have any questions or fancy a chat about the opportunity feel free to give George Bone a call on or apply for the advert and George will be in contact.

Data Scientist | Data Science | Machine Learning | Researcher | PhD | Academic | Python | Tensorflow | PyTorch | Numpy | Pandas | Scikit-learn | 3D | Robotics | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Imagery | C++ | London | £60,000 - £80,000

Machine Learning Researcher | £60,000 - £80,000

Python | SciPy | Numpy | Pandas | Machine Learning | Statistics | Analyst

With autonomous driving within reach, this is an interesting role that'll help reach that little more.

A chance to jump on board as a Machine Learning Researcher has come up with an Artificial Intelligence fuelled company that is focused on the research side of autonomous driver / vehicles.

You'll be:

• Implement ML techniques
• Deliver ML perception algorithms
• Stay relevant and up to data with literature

Skills:

• PhD
• Some commercial experience (non-academic)
• Worked in the full development cycle of machine learning
• Python (tensorflow and pytorch)

Desirable:

• 3D or robotics exposure
• C++

This vacancy will be closing application on 20th March 2020. If you have any questions or fancy a chat about the opportunity feel free to give George Bone a call on or apply for the advert and George will be in contact.

Data Scientist | Data Science | Machine Learning | Researcher | PhD | Academic | Python | Tensorflow | PyTorch | Numpy | Pandas | Scikit-learn | 3D | Robotics | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Imagery | C++ | London | £60,000 - £80,000

Senior Data Scientist | £60,000 - £80,000

Python | Machine Learning | NLP | Deep Learning

Machine Learning is are the heart of the business having grown rapidly with the Bristol area supporting other companies reduce costs and improve profits utilising Machine Learning and IoT.

Their continued grow has fuelled another exciting position for you to join as a Senior Data Scientist supporting the Machine Learning function of the business.

You'll be:

• Client facing
• Deploying models into the production environment
• Continuously improve the models

Skills:

• Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, keras)
• Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• NLP
• Visualisation
• Cloud exposure

This vacancy will be closing application on 20th March 2020. If you have any questions or fancy a chat about the opportunity feel free to give George Bone a call on or apply for the advert and George will be in contact.

Data Scientist | Data Science | Python | Numpy | Pandas | Scikit-learn | Tensorflow | Keras | Seaborn | Plotly | Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Data Analysis | Supervised | Unsupervised | time series | NLP | Bristol | £60,000 - £80,000

Commutable from Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Swindon, Newport, Cardiff and everywhere in-between.

Senior Data Scientist | £60,000 - £80,000

Python | Machine Learning | NLP | Deep Learning

Machine Learning is are the heart of the business having grown rapidly with the Bristol area supporting other companies reduce costs and improve profits utilising Machine Learning and IoT.

Their continued grow has fuelled another exciting position for you to join as a Senior Data Scientist supporting the Machine Learning function of the business.

You'll be:

• Client facing
• Deploying models into the production environment
• Continuously improve the models

Skills:

• Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, keras)
• Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• NLP
• Visualisation
• Cloud exposure

This vacancy will be closing application on 20th March 2020. If you have any questions or fancy a chat about the opportunity feel free to give George Bone a call on or apply for the advert and George will be in contact.

Data Scientist | Data Science | Python | Numpy | Pandas | Scikit-learn | Tensorflow | Keras | Seaborn | Plotly | Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Data Analysis | Supervised | Unsupervised | time series | NLP | Bristol | £60,000 - £80,000

Commutable from Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Swindon, Newport, Cardiff and everywhere in-between.